page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Arizona
section_title: Testing
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Arizona / Epidemiology and public health response / Testing
caption_attribution_description: English: COVID-19 testing site at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona on July 10, 2020. The line of cars snakes through the parking lot and wraps around the buildings.
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Arizona in January 2020. On August 29, 2020, Arizona public health authorities reported 629 new COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths, for cumulative totals of 201,287 cases and 5,007 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Arizona's highest single day death toll occurred on Thursday July 30, when 172 deaths were reported. In the two month period after Governor Ducey ended Arizona's statewide lockdown on May 15, the seven-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases in Arizona rose sharply, from an average of 377 cases per day to 3,249 cases on July 15. As of August 29, the seven day moving average is 485 new cases per day and 2.80% of Arizona residents have been confirmed by COVID-19 testing to have been infected with the virus.
  As of August 21, 2020, Arizona has the seventh-highest number of confirmed cases in the United States, and the third-highest number of confirmed cases per capita, behind Louisiana and Florida. It has the eleventh-highest count of deaths related to the virus, and the ninth-highest count per capita.
context_section_description: PCR Testing for COVID-19 by the Arizona Department of Health Services began on March 2. Additional testing in Arizona has been implemented by Sonora Quest Laboratories, the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, ASU BioDesign Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute's division in Flagstaff. On Saturday, May 2, a testing blitz began with the goal of testing 10,000-20,000 people each Saturday for three weeks and two additional weeks were added. As COVID-19 cases continued to rise in June, testing capacity has struggled to meet demand. On July 9, Ducey announced that testing capacity would be increased at Sonora Quest Laboratories (with up to 35,000 tests processed per day by the end of the month and 60,000 tests per day by the end of August) and in a partnership between ADHS and the ASU BioDesign Institute to make their saliva based COVID-19 test available in high demand areas. In addition, ADHS announced that the number of sites that provide free COVID-19 tests will increase to include new locations in Maryvale and south Phoenix funded by the Federal Government as well as the ASU testing sites which are funded by ADHS. On July 12, Arizona was ranked last of the fifty states and Washington DC for meeting a COVID-19 testing target developed by the Harvard Global Health Institute.
caption: COVID-19 testing site at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix
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